General Evans Above Archive for Dec 11, 2009

Mailbag Round-up: Good Evening New York City: Deluxe Edition

Dec 11, 2009 – permalink

When Paul McCartney was in The Beatles, the four lads from Liverpool played one of the most iconic concerts ever to rock Shea Stadium. When Shea was replaced by Citi Field, it only made sense that the legendary rocker opened it.

And open it he did. Three historic nights rocking a sold out crowd. Songs from The Beatles, Wings and his current works too. And it was all captured on an amazing 2 CD/2 DVD set that I received the other day called Good Evening New York City: Deluxe Edition. If you have anyone on you Xmas list who’s a McCartney fan…or who should be a McCartney fan, you need to get them this present. If you’re a McCartney fan, you need to buy this or leave big hints about it NOW.

The set contains two CDs chock full of Macca’s music. The first DVD contains concert footage shot over the three nights at Citi Field, while the bonus DVD contains the mini-concert from Paul’s performance atop David Letterman’s Marquee and a documentary on Paul’s fans. For me the Letterman mini-concert is worth the price of admission alone. The Citi shows are obviously fantastic, but Paul and the boys just seem so loose and the music so intimate as they perform for people on the streets below.

This CD/DVD combo set is a worthy addition to any music library.

Tiger Woods taking indefinite break from professional golf

Dec 11, 2009 – permalink

Okay, so Tiger Woods is taking an “indefinite break from professional golf” because after all, there’s a lot of women he hasn’t slept with yet. Or he needs time to find women that won’t talk to the media.

Anyway, what really makes me chuckle is that one of the hottest searches right now according to Google Trends is for the definition of the word “indefinite”. I guess concerned fans with poor vocabularies need to know how long he’ll be gone from the sport.

According to the good folks at Merriam-Webster, indefinite means “not precise, vague, having no exact limits”. So now you know.